UPDATED: Siskiyou County supervisors vote to pursue seceding from state

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119. Yeah, but I can see where it could be frustrating

From what I hear, legislators often succumb to pressure from unscrupulous development interests looking to get rick quick by building up pricey developments in areas with little or no water. The proper palms greased, the development gets built in an area where no development should ever have been built, the developers get their money, and then the foreseeable, inevitable problem of supplying the unviable location with water falls to the rest of the state.

We have a somewhat similar problem here in New Orleans. Developers are constantly pressing on local legislators to issue permits to develop swamp lands that a.) serve valuable ecological and topographical purposes, and b.) are already below sea level and outside the levee protection system. Being the irretrievably corrupt place that Louisiana is, legislators never fail to take the bribes and issue the permits, the developments get built, then they predictably get flooded out the next time a big storm comes along and everyone has to foot the bill for bailing them out, both figuratively and literally. Meanwhile, the developers who created the problem are living in big mansions on high ground far, far away, their profits safe and sound in numbered offshore accounts.

Nevertheless, I agree that such unscrupulous and irresponsible conduct is probably not a valid basis for seceding; I'm just saying I can sympathize with the frustration they might be feeling.